Complex Mental Disorders: Representation, Stability and Explanation
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This paper discusses the representation and explanation of relationships between phenomena that are important in psychiatric contexts. After a general discussion of complexity in the philosophy of science, I distinguish zoomingout approaches from zooming-in approaches. Zooming-out has to do with seeing complex mental illnesses as abstract models for the purposes of both explanation and reduction. Zooming-in involves breaking complex mental illnesses into simple components and trying to explain those components independently in terms of speciÞ c causes. Connections between existing practice and zooming-out are drawn, and zooming-in is criticised.
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